Most demanding and best graphic and visual enhancers?

[demon69120]

So you think an SSD will need to be my next upgrade? I only have a 7200 RPM 32mb HD currently, that may be a bottleneck :(. I guess you're right though, I never realized Oblivion was so unstable.

 

Well with your advise and looking around, now I have RAEVWD, HD Water, Sunglare, and QTP 3 redim. Also found ENB Series which hits my performance a bit, but the effects look great. Was wondering if there's a little faster alernative to RAEVD because the 4000 x 4000 is ouch even on a 4870 x2.

[TotallyNotToastyFresh]

Ditch ENBseries and grab those OBE shaders I linked to. The SSAO and Godrays almost make it look like Crysis, I just loooove the SSAO. Yes ENBseries looks great, but the effects aren't worth the performance hit.

 

It's this good:

http://img525.imageshack.us/img525/762/thislooksshopped.jpg

[demon69120]

Ok, checked out Goodrays and SSOS. Looks good :), do they hit you as bad as ENBseries?

[demon69120]

Sadly nothing still weighing me down, and it doesn't look GREATEST.

 

Is QTP III better looking than redimized? (only answer if you've compared them)!

 

Tried Improved Trees and Flora 1& 2

BananaSplit Better Cities

Weather - All Natural

Natural Enviroment

2000 x 2000 LOD

Depth of Field

Animated Windows Lighting System

QTP 3 Redimized

HD Water Enhanced

 

and still using ENB instead of OBGE, because it looks tigh.

[LFact]

Sadly nothing still weighing me down, and it doesn't look GREATEST.

 

Is QTP III better looking than redimized? (only answer if you've compared them)!

 

Tried Improved Trees and Flora 1& 2

BananaSplit Better Cities

Weather - All Natural

Natural Enviroment

2000 x 2000 LOD

Depth of Field

Animated Windows Lighting System

QTP 3 Redimized

HD Water Enhanced

 

and still using ENB instead of OBGE, because it looks tigh.

 

I want to know your system... For QTPIII and its reduced versions, I haven't seen much difference(original QTPIII nearly killed my computer).

[demon69120]

Well I have 4gb of DDR3 7-7-7-20

 

A Phenom II X4 955 @ stock, can put it at 3.8 if I need to. Nothings OC

 

4870 x2 I got from ebay for $200

 

650 Watt PSU

 

Crappy Mobo, Crappy HDD

 

Windows 7 x64 installed, and I used something called ATI Tweaker that I'm not sure if it even helped. It was a registry tweak.

 

 

With it all on I'm getting 40 fps in IC Market district, but Banasplit Better Cities is setup with no fps filtering options etc, and stutters it sometimes...

[demon69120]

So that's it? So far my computer still won't really lag! And Crysis looks a million times better.

[Matoyak]

So that's it? So far my computer still won't really lag! And Crysis looks a million times better.

...what else were you expecting? Crysis came out later, and was designed to look better, and isn't as open-world as Oblivion, so it was able to do so. Oblivion will NEVER look anywhere CLOSE to Crysis. And Oblivion will, a large percentage of the time, run worse on a good computer than Crysis will.

 

And WHY on EARTH are you WANTING lag? The whole point behind having a good computer is to run a game at high graphics without lag. I could only WISH to play the game on even MEDIUM graphics. Just take what you're getting and be thankful for it man/woman.

 

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[LFact]

Not just graphic, but processing AI and scripts can burden your computer. Add more actors by installing MMM, Tamriel Travellers, or anything that adds NPCs/creatures. If you don't want them, you can test how the game can drop your computer down its knees by spawning 2~30 bandits by using console command 'PlaceAtMe'(warning: this command is not much recommended due to several reasons). Surely, some of those spawned NPCs will be brain-dead.......

[demon69120]

So that's it? So far my computer still won't really lag! And Crysis looks a million times better.

...what else were you expecting? Crysis came out later, and was designed to look better, and isn't as open-world as Oblivion, so it was able to do so. Oblivion will NEVER look anywhere CLOSE to Crysis. And Oblivion will, a large percentage of the time, run worse on a good computer than Crysis will.

 

And WHY on EARTH are you WANTING lag? The whole point behind having a good computer is to run a game at high graphics without lag. I could only WISH to play the game on even MEDIUM graphics. Just take what you're getting and be thankful for it man/woman.

 

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Modifications are incredibly powerful; Crysis looks twice as good with a simple config mod. Oblivion does too, yet of course it's a littler more complex.

I never actually said my goal was to lag my computer. I just love visuals

I said that my computer can handle anything, so that won't be an issue and I also confirmed that none of the mods are too strong either, "nothing is lagging me". Sorry if it came out wrong.

Powerful computers are coming cheap now, a complete box capable of Crysis at 720p would only cost around $600. A card would only be $150. Yes it's still a lot, but if visuals matter to you as much as me, it is manageable.

 

I'm sorry if I came off rude, or spoiled to the people with older computers.